Left-wing faction breaks away from SYRIZA
“Umbrella,” the left-wing faction of the main opposition SYRIZA party, led by former Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, has officially announced it has quit the party.
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November 7, 2023 Portugal PM Costa resigns amid high-level corruption probe, snap election looms
Portuguese Socialist Prime Minister Antonio Costa resigned on Tuesday (7 November) after it was announced he was being investigated for corruption related to mining and energy concessions, following raids in his official residence and two ministries, as well as several high-profile detentions.
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November 6, 2023 Blinken speaks with Mitsotakis about Middle East crisis
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the phone on Monday. Mitsotakis repeated Israel’s right to self-defense and Gaza’s urgent need for humanitarian aid.
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October 28, 2023 Mitsotakis says Hamas is a terrorist organization
Hamas is a terrorist organization that does not express the Palestinian people, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told reporters on Friday, after the end of a two-day EU Summit in Brussels.
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October 19, 2023 The results of the recent regional elections
As people are assessing the recent local elections, here are a few observations.
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October 16, 2023 Greek, Palestinian FMs discuss Middle East crisis in phone call
Foreign Affairs Minister George Gerapetritis and his Palestinian counterpart Riyadh al-Maliki discussed in a phone call the need to prevent the escalation of the crisis in the Middle East at a regional level, said the Greek Foreign Affairs Ministry on Monday.
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October 6, 2023 Slovak president halts military aid to Ukraine amid coalition talks
President Zuzana Čaputová moved to prevent the technocratic interim government from sending a shipment of weapons to Ukraine at a time when Robert Fico, who promised not to send “one more bullet”, is trying to form a government.
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October 4, 2023 French government dissolves far-right Catholic association
The French government dissolved the fundamentalist Catholic association Civitas on Wednesday (October 4), stating that the group seeks to “wage war against the Republic” by spreading anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, homophobic and conspiracy theories.
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September 30, 2023 Takeaways from the Athens Democracy Forum
Standing in front of the ancient columns of the Stoa of Attalos, Palestinian actress and poet Dana Dajani orated: “If I was president my role as conflict mediator would include therapy and hugs, my constitution would be universal love, my border policy would be open-door, I’d eliminate banks and instead free the poor from the […]
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September 25, 2023 Stefanos Kasselakis Is the New Leader of SYRIZA
Stefanos Kasselakis is the new SYRIZA-PA leader after winning the second round ballot over Efi Achtsioglou on Sunday’s party election. Syriza is the second largest party in the Greek Parliament and its former party chairman, Alexis Tsipras, served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2015 to 2019.
